{"id":3705,"date":"2010-11-15T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2010-11-15T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:40:35","slug":"obama-administration-grants-111-obamacare-waivers-buries-info-on-hhs-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/obama-administration-grants-111-obamacare-waivers-buries-info-on-hhs-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Grants 111 Obamacare Waivers; Buries Info on HHS Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it come to the health care reform the devil is in the details&#8230; or is this case the details you won&#8217;t see in the news. As of November 1, 2010 the Department of Health and Human Services has handed out 111 waivers exempting dozens of businesses and unions from provisions of the so call\u00a0 Affordable Care Act that will go into effect January 1,  2011.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"495\" height=\"396\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/96Uu_tI0hTw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>FOX News contributor <strong>Tracy Byrnes<\/strong> sums things pretty well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe bottom line here is that they gave out waivers is an  admission of guilt.  Basically they\u2019re saying, \u201cYou\u2019re right.  We  screwed up.\u201d  That\u2019s the bottom line here.  They did not create a law  that benefits all of us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh, they didn&#8217;t pass a law that benefits any of us&#8230; If this turkey isn&#8217;t repealed it will ultimately destroy private health insurance and private health care in this country.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/ociio\/regulations\/approved_applications_for_waiver.html\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> chosen few on the HHS web site.<\/p>\n<p>I should also mention that out of the 375,000 or so Americans with pre-existing conditions HHS said would apply for coverage in the first year of ObamaCare only <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703805004575606891744060162.html?mg=com-wsj\" target=\"_blank\">8,011 have done so<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it come to the health care reform the devil is in the details&#8230; or is this case the details you won&#8217;t see in the news. As of November 1, 2010 the Department of Health and Human Services has handed out 111 waivers exempting dozens of businesses and unions from provisions of the so call\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,7],"tags":[1109,781,462,779,1108],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health-care","category-politics","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obama-administration","tag-obamacare","tag-waivers","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-XL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3847,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/obamacare-waivers-now-top-1000\/","url_meta":{"origin":3705,"position":0},"title":"Obamacare Waivers Now Top 1000","author":"Jeff","date":"March 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"When the story first broke last November the Obama Administration has issued just over 100 waivers, that number has grown steadily and reached what can best be called a grim milestone: The number of temporary healthcare reform waivers granted by the Obama administration to organizations climbed to more than 1,000,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health Care&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health Care","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/health-care\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4056,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/weekend-news-dump-obama-administration-to-end-obamacare-waiver-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":3705,"position":1},"title":"Weekend News Dump: Obama Administration to End ObamaCare Waiver Program","author":"Jeff","date":"June 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, remember those Obamacare waivers the Department of Health and Human Services was passing out like candy? 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